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{{quote|''Just a small-town girl, living in a lonely world.''
''She took the midnight train going anywhere.''|'''Journey''', ''Don't Stop Believin'''}}
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* The titular character in ''Big Fish''.
* In ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'', while Clarice Starling is interviewing a girl in Belvedere, Ohio, the girl asks her:
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** This is also the theme of the big [[Hannibal Lecture]], delivered by the [[Trope Namer]].
* In ''[[The Last Starfighter]]'', Alex Rogan really wants to get out of the boring trailer park where he lives.
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* [[Taylor Swift]], particularly in "White Horse".
* While the song itself isn't about it, but the song "White Kids Love Hip-Hop" by [[MC Chris]] has a spoken-word monologue by [[The Brak Show|Andy Merril]] along these lines.
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* Sara Evans' "Bible Song;" after the narrator's cousin [[Driven to Suicide|commits suicide to escape]], she gets out before she goes the same way ("so no one would sing some Bible song over me").
* Steve Earle's "Someday".
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